The federal agency charged with safeguarding nuclear reactors has underestimated the potential for terrorists to attack small research reactors on college campuses as well as the potential impact of such attacks, congressional investigators said in a report released Tuesday.
Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply them
A contract employee at the largest nuclear plant in the nation was stopped at a plant entrance Friday with a "relatively small" explosive device in his truck, officials said.
Researchers who launched an experimental cyber attack caused a generator to self-destruct, alarming the federal government and electrical industry about what might happen if such an attack were carried out on a larger scale, CNN has learned.
Is the United States finally about to embark on a long anticipated nuclear power renaissance? It seemed so yesterday, when Princeton-based NRG Energy filed a license application to build two new nuclear reactors at its existing facility in Bay City, Texas.
Power producer NRG Energy Inc. is expected on Tuesday to submit the first application for a new nuclear reactor in the United States in nearly 30 years.
Nuclear power plants will not be required to put up defenses against terrorist attacks from the air, according to a rule enacted Monday by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Two teams of government investigators using fake documents were able to enter the United States with enough radioactive sources to make two dirty bombs, according to a federal report made available Monday.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission removed its massive public reading room from the Internet Monday after nuclear safety activists and media organizations found several documents on it containing sensitive information they said could help terrorists.
The federal agency charged with safeguarding nuclear reactors has underestimated the potential for terrorists to attack small research reactors on college campuses as well as the potential impact of such attacks, congressional investigators said in a report released Tuesday.
Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply them
A contract employee at the largest nuclear plant in the nation was stopped at a plant entrance Friday with a "relatively small" explosive device in his truck, officials said.
Researchers who launched an experimental cyber attack caused a generator to self-destruct, alarming the federal government and electrical industry about what might happen if such an attack were carried out on a larger scale, CNN has learned.
Is the United States finally about to embark on a long anticipated nuclear power renaissance? It seemed so yesterday, when Princeton-based NRG Energy filed a license application to build two new nuclear reactors at its existing facility in Bay City, Texas.
Power producer NRG Energy Inc. is expected on Tuesday to submit the first application for a new nuclear reactor in the United States in nearly 30 years.
Nuclear power plants will not be required to put up defenses against terrorist attacks from the air, according to a rule enacted Monday by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Two teams of government investigators using fake documents were able to enter the United States with enough radioactive sources to make two dirty bombs, according to a federal report made available Monday.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission removed its massive public reading room from the Internet Monday after nuclear safety activists and media organizations found several documents on it containing sensitive information they said could help terrorists.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission failed to identify and prevent corrosion at an Ohio nuclear plant more than two years ago, an oversight that was the most serious safety incident since the 1979 Three Mile Island disaster, according to a report released Tuesday by the investigative arm of Congress.
Now that William Anders has been picked as the next CEO of General Dynamics, the rank-and-file at the St. Louis defense contractor might be wondering what he was like as an astronaut. Was this form...
A cloud of highly toxic and mildly radioactive gas escaped from a Kerr-McGee uranium processing plant in Gore, Oklahoma, killing one worker and hospitalizing 34 people. The poisonous hydrogen fluor...
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